Re: [issue1947] GA-880GM-UD2H (rev. 1.3) AHCI fails to detect disks at the end of the RAID controller

From:

Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date:

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:05:24 +0100

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:57:10PM +0000, Edward O'Callaghan (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
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> Edward O'Callaghan <eocallaghan@auroraux.org> added the comment:
>
> Well I am not sure, hence providing all the resource materiel for someone more
> well versed in the AHCI spec. I should not that the hardware does not belong to
> me and that this is a smb server I setup for a friend. I do however, have SSH
> into this machine.
The GA-880GM-UD2H is a desktop board; it has no integrated RAID controller.
The advertised RAID feature is a BIOS hack which allows some versions of
Microsoft Windows to use software RAID volumes without too much pain.
AFAIK, FreeBSD had some support to understand the on-disk format of some of
these pseudo-raid volumes :
http://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/4/ataraid/
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Francois Tigeot